The Kyivan Rus

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The theft of the word "Rus" by Moscowia

Kiyvan Rus, as a state union with its capital in Kyiv, existed from the second half of the 9th to the middle of the 13th century. During this time, a powerful economy, culture, architecture, and traditions were born here. All this was supported by strong trade ties with other states and favorable conditions for further development. Kiyvan Rus was known, reckoned with, and respected by its leaders. Of course, this was an eyesore for its envious neighbor, Muscovy, and in order to take advantage of someone else's reputation without too much effort, it decided to take advantage of the situation.

Thus, a very young principality, born only in the sixteenth century, announced its intention to "collect Rus lands" at a critical moment for Kyiv, after its destruction by the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Peter I, in the best traditions of Russia, called himself emperor, not of the Moscow Kingdom, but of the newly created Russian Empire, and began to systematically distort history. He borrowed the best practices of neighboring states to create the appearance of a "single national identity and culture" and proclaimed Muscovy the center of the Slavic peoples.

Systematic hoaxes were also observed under subsequent rulers. To hide the miserable history of the formation of their empire, each of them tried to falsify the facts. Catherine II was perhaps the best at this task.

On December 4, 1783, she ordered the creation of a "Commission for the Compilation of Notes on Ancient History, Mainly Russian." The organization, whose task was to rewrite and distort historical facts, operated for 9 years. During this time, the commission compiled a new history of the Russian Empire. Moreover, it was at their suggestion that the right to the political and cultural heritage of Rus' passed to the Russians. Sources that testified to the contrary were ruthlessly destroyed.

Catherine II's insinuations were continued by the Soviet government. It was from the history textbooks of that time that the thesis came that the Pereyaslav Treaty of 1654 between Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the second Tsar of Muscovy, Alexei Mikhailovich, was the culmination of the "eternal aspirations" of the two peoples to reunite. However, in reality, the Russian people did not exist at that time, and the agreement itself was only a historical necessity. And the "lost" original document speaks volumes. Probably, it, like other evidence that was not favorable to Russia, was eliminated.

But the Soviet regime did not stop at rewriting history. Having isolated itself from the rest of the world, Moscow decided to completely wipe out a people that was direct evidence of years of lies and to take advantage of its resources. In pursuit of these goals, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin and their henchmen caused a large-scale genocide of Ukrainians. Millions of Ukrainians died as a result of artificial famine. And when the terrible truth leaked out to the world, Russia again tried to rewrite history and present the catastrophe of an entire nation as a famine caused by natural factors.

Historical chronology

"Moscow history is sewn to the history of Russia with white threads" (Karl Marx)

The Muscovite state was widely referred to as: Muscovy, Muscovitia, and sometimes even Tartary. (Anthony Jenkes' map from 1563 has a clear inscription: MOSCOWIAE et TARTARIAE)

On the map of the Dutchman Frederick de Wit from 1680, Russia, Muscovy and Tartary are already 3 different countries, while Tartary occupies almost all of Asia, and Muscovy: the Moscow region and the Urals.

Ivan III was the first to try to appoint himself the heir of Kiyvan Rus. In 1460-1470, when sending letters to Rome, Ivan III signed himself as the prince of White Russia.

Later, his son Vasily III, who ruled in 1505-1533, in order to streamline his occupation aspirations, namely looking for a reason to occupy Ukraine, began to raise the issue of the reunification of Rus with the Horde. This fact was especially amusingly perceived by his fellow tribesmen, who watched as Tsar Vasil III walked around the royal chambers, wearing a turban and with a scimitar on the side of his Astrakhan robe!

The official document on the renaming of Muscovy appeared only in 1721. To emphasize its closeness to the European nations, Muscovy adopted the Greek transcription of the word Rus — Russia for its new name.

When, at the end of the 18th century, Russia occupied the entire territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and a large part of Poland, Catherine II faced the task of finding a legal justification for the occupation.

The ideal way out, invented by her, was the falsification of history to justify Russia's legal claims to foreign lands.

Falsification was engaged in at once on several fronts:

- There were falsified documents that united the russian and moscow peoples, as related Slavic peoples!

- The story of the struggle of national liberation Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish movements, which always dreamed of becoming slaves of the Moscow Horde, was invented

- Russian started a myth about the leadership of Russia as a Slavic country, about the primacy of its cultural traditions, and because all other Slavs adopted and changed its cultural traditions.

So that forgeries would not have problems with authenticity, all real historical documents were removed and destroyed.

In order to implement the grand plan of falsification, Catherine II wrote a decree dated December 4, 1783, on the creation of a Commission for compiling notes on ancient history, mainly of Russia, headed by Count Andrei Petrovich Shuvalov.

In the decree, it was ordered in black and white: Compile such a history of Russia, where the pedigree of the Romanov dynasty was derived not from the Tatars of the Horde, but from the princes of Kiyvan Rus! Create a carousel.

For this purpose, unknown annals of Muscovy were written for the village, which no one had seen until 1783.

The ancient annals of Kiyvan Rus - Ukraine and Lithuania were rewritten, updated, and their original versions were destroyed.

In 1790, Moscow Tatars began to be officially called Slavs!

Since it was then, on behalf of the empress, Oleksandr Vasiliovych Hrapovytskyi, her former secretary in 1782-1793, as well as a member of the commission for organizing history, wrote a beautiful fairy tale about the fact that Muscovites are Slavs.

The forgery was so gross that Mykola Mykhailovych Karamzin, who was commissioned to write the 12-volume History of the Russian State on the basis of falsified chronicles, did not even hide that if he had not added his contribution to the historical annals handed over to him, namely, as he put it, a dose of lies, then it would be impossible to read nonsense about the fact that the history of Muscovy originates from Kyiv and Novgorod without laughing.

In the future, the russians believed so much in the fact that they were Slavs and traced their lineage to the Kiyv knyazes, that they absolutely did not accept any, even scientific, statements.

As for the thesis about the common origin of the Ukrainian and russian peoples, it does not correspond to reality at all, and is more a figment of the imaginations of imperial and then Soviet historians. The researches of Oleksiy Shakhmatov, an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, have been preserved to this day, in which it is stated that the Little Russian (Ukrainian) tribes of Polyans, Drevlians, Volhynians, Buzhans, Tiverts, Dulibs, and Ulichs inhabited the territory from the shores of Pripyat to the Black Sea, from the Dnipro and to the Carpathians. These Slavic tribes had no kinship with the Merya, Muroma, Vesya, Meshchera, Perm, Pechera, Moksha, Mordva, Mari tribes, who lived in the X-XIII centuries in the land of Moksel, and later in Muscovy, the eternal land of the Great Russians. It stretched from Tula, Ryazan and Penza to the White Sea. Those were tribes of a different origin, not Slavic, but Finnish. By the way, Muscovy as a principality and the "table city" itself first appeared in 1277 from the "supreme command" of the Tatar-Mongol Sovereign and was an ordinary ulus of the Golden Horde. This is how Professor Serhii Solovyov describes these lands and people: "This country beyond Tanaid (Don) is very beautiful, it has rivers and forests. In the north there are huge forests, in which live the Moksel people, who have no law, pure pagans. They don't have bridges, but they live in small huts in the forest..."

Ukrainians and russians have never had a common language at the everyday level

According to Kyrylo Galushka, candidate of historical sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the thesis that Little Russians and Belarusians are part of the same russian nation contains a number of factual errors and distortions.

— Was there no difference in language in the 10th-13th centuries? Of course, it was not, so all ancient Rus lands used the Church Slavonic language of Cyril and Methodius, which was the Thessaloniki dialect of the Old Bulgarian language, in record keeping and chronicles. All Slavs understood her. In particular, this is how they wrote in Moravia, a part of the modern Czech Republic. But for some reason no one claims that russians and Czechs are one people, right? - says the scientist. - In the same way, it can be argued that the Italians, French, English and Germans of the same era "were one people", because they all used Latin in business. There is colloquial language, and there is book and official language. Studies of modern linguistics claim that the Eastern Slavs did not have a common initial language. All Slavic peoples - both in the south, in the east, and in the west - had initial proto-dialects, which later turned into modern Slavic languages. In other words, Ukrainians and Russians have never had a common language at the everyday level, - emphasized Kyrylo Galushko. Even the famous connoisseur of Great Russian dialects, Volodymyr Dahl, did not agree to include Little Russian (Ukrainian) words in his dictionary, because he was convinced that the language of Ukrainians is completely original.